ACEEE Staff
202-507-4015
Jennifer Thorne Amann is the Buildings Program Director. Since joining ACEEE in 1997, she has authored dozens of publications and articles on appliances, lighting, consumer electronics, equipment installation practices, emerging residential and commercial building...
202-507-4036
Moira Annelin is ACEEE’s Contracts/Grants Coordinator, a position she has held since May 2008. In this capacity she oversees invoicing and accounts receivable, accounts payable, maintains information in the payroll software, and assists with compiling the annual budget...
202-507-4745
Naomi joined ACEEE in 2012. She is part of the senior management team, addressing strategic and tactical issues across the organization. She is responsible for all aspects of the organization's operations, including human resources, strategic finance and business...
202-507-4746
Casey Bell joined ACEEE in 2011. Casey conducts quantitative and qualitative research to model how specific energy efficiency policies affect the economy at the federal, state, and local levels; and examines best practice policies and market mechanisms that can be used to...
202-507-4748
Shui Bin joined ACEEE in 2011 as a Senior Researcher. Her work focuses on building energy efficiency, behavior-related energy research and policy analysis, and China energy policies. She was most recently at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a research scientist,...
202-507-4016
Jason Blake is the IT Support Specialist for ACEEE. Jason comes from a varied background in the nonprofit world ranging from mental health agencies to the school system, to community action agencies. He has served as a Software Application and Technology Educator for...
206-938-7585
Anna Chittum joined ACEEE in 2008. She researches and helps develop federal, state, and local industrial energy policies, particularly those pertaining to combined heat and power (CHP) systems and industrial energy efficiency programs. Her expertise includes regulatory and...
202-507-4002
Adam Christensen is the Staff Engineer for ASAP. Adam leads ASAP’s technical analysis on energy efficiency standards for a focused subset of technologies that are subject to a Department of Energy (DOE) rule. Adam is responsible for conducting...
617-363-9470
Andrew deLaski is Executive Director of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project. At ASAP, he coordinates national advocacy efforts related to federal efficiency standards and advises state policymakers and advocates interested in state level energy efficiency standards...
781-293-6309
Marianne DiMascio is the Outreach Coordinator for the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, a consumer, environmental, state government, and utility company coalition dedicated to advancing cost-effective appliance and equipment efficiency standards. Her primary role is to...
202-507-4009
Neal Elliott coordinates ACEEE's overall research efforts, and leads the Industrial and Agricultural Programs. Elliott has been with ACEEE since 1993, becoming an internationally recognized expert and author on energy efficiency, energy efficiency programs and policies...
202-507-4031
Kate Farley joined ACEEE in 2011 as a Research Assistant with the Industry and Agriculture programs. She also researches and analyzes federal legislation for the Policy program. Prior to joining ACEEE, Kate interned in the House Committee on Science, Space, and...
202-507-4037
Ben Foster joined ACEEE in 2010. His current work focuses on energy-use feedback programs, enhanced billing, feedback technology investment, and consumer decision-making. Ben's work cuts across multiple sectors and includes analyses of the "state of the...
202-507-4747
Sara Hayes has a dual focus within ACEEE working with both the Policy and Utilities programs. She leads many of ACEEE's analyses of national policies and manages research of trends and emerging issues in utility end-use efficiency. Sara joined ACEEE in 2010. Sara...
202-507-4022
Kathryn Hottel is ACEEE’s Finance Associate, a position she has held since May 2010. In this capacity she oversees accounts payable, accounts receivable, and banking transactions. Hottel holds a BS in Business Administration from Christopher Newport University. Prior...
202-507-4001
Geneva Jones serves as Administrative Assistant, performing a wide variety of administrative and receptionist desk duties. She has been with ACEEE since 1998. Prior to joining ACEEE, she was a secretary at the State Department and a personnel clerk with the U.S. Army. She...
202-507-4019
Dr. Siddiq Khan is a Senior Transportation Analyst for the Transportation program at ACEEE, a position he has held since March 2009. He offers fourteen years of experience in transportation including five years' experience in analyzing and modeling emissions and fuel...
517-655-7037
Dr. Martin Kushler is a Senior Fellow at ACEEE, where he directed the Utilities Program for ten years. While at ACEEE he has directed numerous widely acclaimed national studies of utility sector energy efficiency policies and programs, and provided technical assistance to...
202-507-4029
Skip Laitner is the Director of Economic and Social Analysis for ACEEE. He previously served 10 years as a Senior Economist for Technology Policy for the USEPA, but chose to leave the federal service in June 2006 to focus his research on developing a more robust technology...
202-507-4013
Therese Langer has been Director of ACEEE’s Transportation Program since 2001. She works to improve the efficiency of both vehicles and systems for the movement of passengers and freight. Her current areas of focus include: advancing technologies and policies to...
202-507-4039
Amanda Lowenberger is a Buildings Program Analyst in the Buildings program, a position she has held since May 2008. She works on a number of topics including: appliance standards, state efficiency potential analyses, building energy modeling, and emerging technologies....
302-292-3966
Rebecca Lunetta has been with ACEEE since 1997, starting as Conferences Manager and currently as Director of Conferences. She is responsible for organizing and managing all logistical tasks related to conference planning for ACEEE. These tasks include: supervising...
202-507-4038
Eric Mackres works on local and community energy efficiency initiatives with the Policy Program. He provides technical assistance to communities that are beginning or expanding energy efficiency efforts. In addition, he manages ACEEE research related to local implementation...
202-507-4034
Joanna Mauer is the Technical Advocacy Coordinator for the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP). She coordinates a broad coalition of efficiency advocates to provide technical analysis and comments on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) efficiency standards...
202-507-4026
A Fulbright recipient, Susan completed her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside in 2002. Questions that interest her concern the relationship between ideologies, worldviews, and material culture, in particular the built environment....
202-507-4007
Philip joined ACEEE in 2000 as the Director of Finance.He has overall responsibility for the financial management of the organization.He oversees the accounting systems, provides internal monthly financial reports to project managers and the executive committee, and provides...
202-507-4030, cell: 703-477-4781
Harry Misuriello has been a Visiting Fellow at ACEEE since 2008. He consults with and advises ACEEE on strategies to increase the level of energy-efficient new residential and commercial construction nationally and regionally through development, adoption, and enforcement...
202-507-4004
Maggie Molina is a Research Manager in the Policy Program. She joined ACEEE in December of 2005. She leads many of ACEEE's state policy and analysis activities, including the annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard and the State Clean Energy Research Project, which...
202-507-4010
Glee Murray is the Associate Director for Outreach. She joined ACEEE in 1990. She directs the Communications Program (including Publications), and oversees the Conferences Program. Murray's responsibilities include strategic planning and oversight of ACEEE's Web...
202-507-4011
Steven Nadel is the Executive Director. He has been at ACEEE for 20 years, serving as Deputy Director of the organization and Director of ACEEE’s Utilities and Buildings programs prior to his promotion to Executive Director in 2001. Prior to ACEEE he planned and...
202-507-4005
Max Neubauer has been with ACEEE since 2007 and currently works as a project manager for ACEEE’s SCERP program. As a member of the State Analysis Team, he has contributed to the annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard as well as ACEEE’s Maryland and Virginia...
202-507-4003
Renee Nida has edited numerous academic and consumer-oriented books, reports, booklets, and brochures. She has also formatted and coordinated production of conference proceedings, and managed multi-use contacts database. She joined ACEEE in 1994 after working at the...
608-354-1329
Seth Nowak is a Research Associate in the ACEEE Utilities Program, a position he has held since January 2010. He conducts quantitative analysis and writes reports on energy efficiency programs and policies in the electric and natural gas utility sector. His focus is on...
302-737-1084
Lynn has been with ACEEE since March 2011 and is currently the Conferences Coordinator. She assists with the organization and on-site management of all ACEEE conferences, workshops, and other events. Prior to joining ACEEE, Lynn was employed by the International Reading...
202-507-4014
Harvey Sachs is a Senior Fellow in the ACEEE Buildings Program. His responsibilities include building codes, standards, and market transformation for the residential and commercial sectors. Market transformation activities include evaluating emerging technologies, and...
202-507-4017
Eric Schwass started as Publications Coordinator at ACEEE in August 2008. In May 2011 he became Web Coordinator. Prior to joining ACEEE, he worked as a Production Manager for Smithsonian Books. Schwass has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island and...
202-507-4028
Michael Sciortino joined ACEEE in January 2009 and serves as Policy Analyst with the Policy Program. Sciortino focuses on state policies and programs, maintaining the State Energy Efficiency Policy Database and contributing to the State Energy Efficiency Scorecard. He also...
202-507-4012
Ann Suydam is the Development Director for ACEEE, a position she has held since January 2007. She is responsible for helping raise financial resources to support the organization. Suydam coordinates the Ally Program, a membership opportunity for ACEEE supporters....
202-507-4035
Jacob Talbot is a Buildings Program Analyst who joined ACEEE in September of 2008. His work at ACEEE is split between the Buildings Program and the State Clean Energy Resource Project (SCERP), where he specializes in the buildings and policy analyses and residential...
202-507-4008
Daniel Trombley is a Senior Industrial Analyst for ACEEE focusing on industrial energy efficiency. He works on assessing the energy efficiency potential of industries for state studies and characterizing emerging industrial technologies. He also helps develop and assess...
202-507-4021
Shruti Vaidyanathan is a Senior Transportation Analyst with the Transportation Program, a position she has held since October 2007. She is the principal analyst for ACEEE’s Green Book Online, a comprehensive environmental ranking of consumer vehicles. Her recent work...
202-507-4006
Suzanne Watson is the Director of Policy at ACEEE. She and her policy team work with all of ACEEE’s program areas (Transportation, Utilities, Industry, Buildings, Behavior, and Economic and Social Analysis) to help set policy priorities. Watson works with staff and...
202-507-4018
Mallory Werthamer is a Conference and Outreach Assistant. She joined ACEEE in November of 2011. Her work is split between conference planning and web communications. She has a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism and History from the University of Maryland.
608-243-1123
Dan York joined ACEEE in 2001. He has more than 20 years of experience in researching, analyzing and implementing energy efficiency policies and programs. York is widely recognized for his work tracking and analyzing trends and emerging issues in utility-sector energy...
202-507-4023
Rachel Young joined ACEEE in September 2011 as the Assistant to the Directors. She performs administrative duties, assists the executive team, and researches air regulations and U.S. policy. Prior to joining ACEEE, Rachel was a student at Lewis & Clark College...